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Environmentally-Friendly UV Resistant Coatings

Ocean State Hot Coat, a new company, is serving the region with custom powder coating of car frames, motorcycles and marine parts, and other metal items. Fast becoming the preferred choice in high quality resistant finishes, the powder coating process offers a waterproof, rustproof, dent and chip resistant finish for interior and exterior uses.

22 Feb 2008

New Program to Raise Awareness Associated with Advanced Imaging Procedures

American Imaging Management (AIM), an operating subsidiary of WellPoint, Inc., and a leading radiology benefit management and technology company with health plan clients representing over 20 million consumers, has introduced an enhanced Patient Safety Program to increase awareness of radiation dose associated with advanced imaging procedures, such as computed tomography (CT) scans and positron emission tomography (PET) scans.

21 Feb 2008

Orbel Becoming Fully Integrated Supplier for Photo Chemical Milling

With its recent incorporation of photo tooling capabilities, Orbel has become your one source for photo chemical milling and electroplating high quality precision metal parts.

21 Feb 2008

Agreement Enables Production of Optical Devices Based on a Unified Standard

Eudyna Devices Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., NEC Electronics Corp., Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Opnext, Inc. and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., today announced, in advance of OFC/NFOEC, common specifications for pigtail type optical devices based on the 40 Gbit/s Optical Device Multi-Source Agreement (XLMD-MSA*1), introduced by the six companies in March 2007.

21 Feb 2008

Company Increasing Value Through Innovation

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer electronics, industrial, defense, and medical markets, announces that it was granted a new patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The company now holds seven issued patents and nine patents pending.

21 Feb 2008

World’s Largest Solar Facility

Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) today announced plans for one of the world's largest solar facilities - a 280-megawatt (MW) concentrating solar power (CSP) plant to be built 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, near Gila Bend, Ariz.

21 Feb 2008

Cymer Releases High-Performance Upgrades for XLA Products

Prior to SPIE Advanced Lithography 2008, Cymer, Inc., the world’s leading supplier of light sources used in semiconductor lithography, announced today the availability of high-performance (HP) upgrades for its XLA 105, XLA 300, and XLA 400 products.

21 Feb 2008

Veeco Announces MOCVD Tool Accepted by Japanese HB-LED Manufacturer

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that a leading Japanese high brightness light emitting diode (HB-LED) manufacturer has process accepted the TurboDisc K465 gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System to support their capacity expansion of blue HB-LEDs.

From Veeco 21 Feb 2008

Kotura Announces Partnership to Bring New Silicon Photonics Products

Kotura, Inc., a leading provider of silicon photonic components, and Oki Optical Components, a leading supplier of very high speed optical and IC components for Ethernet and Telecom applications, today announced that they are partnering to bring new products to the market place.

21 Feb 2008

Fiber Optic Splicer Provides Greater Thermal Control and Lower Insertion Loss

In the world of fiber optic splicing, it’s been the choice of two technologies: electric arc fusion or filament splicing. Not anymore.

21 Feb 2008

Camera Revealed Some Amazing Things

Venus Express has revealed a planet of extraordinarily changeable and extremely large-scale weather. Bright hazes appear in a matter of days, reaching from the south pole to the low southern latitudes and disappearing just as quickly. Such 'global weather', unlike anything on Earth, has given scientists a new mystery to solve.

21 Feb 2008

X-Rayed the Dark Matter

A University of British Columbia astronomer with an international team has discovered the largest structures of dark matter ever seen. Measuring 270 million light-years across, these dark matter structures criss-cross the night sky, each spanning an area that is eight times larger than the full moon.

21 Feb 2008

Unleashing Powerful Bursts of X-Rays

Observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have revealed that the youngest known pulsing neutron star has thrown a temper tantrum. The collapsed star occasionally unleashes powerful bursts of X-rays, which are forcing astronomers to rethink the life cycle of neutron stars.

21 Feb 2008

Creating Lasers Working at Wavelengths Currently Inaccessible

Scientists hope that research being conducted in Binghamton University’s Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy will create lasers that work at wavelengths currently inaccessible.

21 Feb 2008

New Cornell Electron Microscope Takes Color Pictures

A new electron microscope recently installed in Cornell's Duffield Hall is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms in a crystal and see how those atoms bond to one another. And in living color.

21 Feb 2008